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GOOD ROADS NOTES. General Stone on State Aid The subject of St»te aid for >oad building was touched oa by General Stone, Chief of the Bureau of Good Roads of the Agricultural Department, in his address at the annual conven tion of the National Road Parliament. He said: “The provision of State aid is the only possible method by which the State and the corporate property of the cities can aid in the building of roads. Throughout the United States the cities and corporations, as far as I know, are quite willing to help, and the only question is how they can do it. “It is of more vital importance to the cities to have good country roads than it is to the people of the country themselves. Every ounce of food that is consumed in the cities must come from the country, and if the country roads were wiped out to-day, the farmers could go right on living, but the people of the cities would have to scatter to-morrow—they could not live a day. They are beginning to realize it; they are beginning to feel that they want a hand in the building of the roads, and they have a feeling of very warm interest. A great many city people are going to the country that formerly did not go at all, and they would go a great deal more if they had good country roads, and ‘State aid’ is the only measure that any of us have been able to devise by which city and corporate property can aid in the development of the country roads. “I was interested in what one gentle man said this morning, that in his own township, his village and his bank paid three-fourths of the township tax, and that was a fair contribution. That was unquestionably fair so far as his township was concerned, but. how about the next township that has no village and no bank? We must look beyond our own immediate neighbor hood; we must cultivate a wider citizenship, and that feeling of wider citizenship is growing—a feeling that the favored localities must help those not so favored. “I am glad to say that the actual possession of good roads, wherever I have known it, has had a great effect in developing that kinder feeling and broader citizenship. It has been a marked fact in New Jersey that the localities which have taxed themselves to get good roads are the first to vote to give State aid to the localities that have not good. roads. Many men say ‘We see the benefits of it; we have the benefits of it, and we can afford to ,elp our neighbors enjoy it.’ And will find that the movement for Stath aid, wherever it goes, will help to develop a broader citizenship. “I hope that some time Federal aid will broaden it still more. I hope that the people of the United States, in the more-favored regions, will feel disposed, as they get the benefit of good roads themselves, to help confer those benefits upon the regions that have not the advantages. I believe that every step taken, every judicious step taken towards bringing about the aid of the Federal Government to wards general road improvement will help to develop that feeling all through the United States; that we have got to consider something beyond our own neighborhoods, — beyond our own Counties aud beyond our own States. We have got to look over the whole field of the United States and see what the Qeneral Government can do to help thq people who need this kind of help everywhere.” Good and Cheap Roads. •• The interesting fact was reported by Abbeville that with road machines and convict labor the cost of improving the roads, even in that hilly and clayey county, was only from go to $6 per mile. Darlington, which employs like machines and labor, reported the cost of the convict force last year at twenty- five cents a day per convict, and only fifteen cents this year. On ‘the basis of “cost” exhibited in these counties it ought to be practicable certainly for any county to make good roads that wants them. Anderson paid for its “machines,” which are operated by convict labor, by means of “a } mill levy” with sandy soil; operates “a road machine” with convict labor and has found the system “satisfactory.” The “old system” still obtains in Chester County, where “the soil is red and the county hilly," but systematic work with the chain gangs has made the roads “much better,” and the value of property, it is said, has been “en hanced by virtue of these improve ments.” Darlington makes a special report, which is of great interest. The sandy roads in that county have been “improved” by the»plan of spreading a layer of clay on their surface. A layer of “six inches in depth” has made a “firm, hard roadway,” where there was a soft, sandy one before, which, when properly drained, has given satisfaction.—Charleston News and Comber. % Up to the Times. Some of the best roads in Tennessee are claimed by Hamilton County. They are so well appreciated by all classes that the Chattanooga News says “tkere is a growing tendency among th<* farmers along our good roads to buy wheels, and this season finds hun dreds of them that used to have to hitch up their teams and take from twd to five hours for a trip to town now come in on their wheel and are back home in less time than it used to take them to make the trip one way: Thus the old world ‘do move,’ and the farm ers are not the least among the pro gressive of their brethren.” Comprehendve Aim. In Florida. To benefit morally, mentally and materially every resident of the State; to encourage immigration; to estab lish new enterprises; to increase the value of every acre of good land; to set the debtor fr^e by enabling him to pay his debts: to aid the growth of moral aud religious sentiment in the rural districts by making smooth the road to church, and to confer upon future generations the great boon of general education by removing the chief obstacles to attendance at school —bad roads and poverty, are the aims of the Florida Good Roads Associa tion. For Road Surfacing. Here is a scheme for providing crushed stone ready at hand for sur facing country roads. In many sec tions of the Middle and Eastern States old tottering stone walls flank the highway on either side. Owners would generally be glad to get rid of these old walls. Let a traction engino propel the crusher along the road and furnish power to de the crushing, the old walls to provide the material, which is thus left exactly where it is needed without the necessity of twice handling.—New England Homestead. Mi.treft. «f the Pacilic Though Japan’s naval activity is primarily significant of a purpose to secure general predominance in oriental seas, and though, as I have suggested, there is no immediate rea son for or prospect of trouble between Japan and the United States involving naval armaments, yet, in the broad sense of dignity on the sea, our coun try can by no means safely ignore or be inattentive to the progress of our oriental neighbor toward the rank of a first-class sea power in the Pacific ocean. The completion of its fleet now building will, inside of three years, give Japan that rank, and the future programme already laid out will accentuate it. The superior quality of Japan’s new navy is even more significant than its enormous quantity. She has no useless ships, none obsolete; all are up to date. Meantime, the attitude of the United States seems quite as supine as that of Russia. It is not necessary to go into minute details on this point. Suffice it to say that, taking Russia, Japan and the United States as the three maritime powers most directly concerned in the Pacific ocean, and whose interests are most im mediately affected by its command, Japan at her present rate of naval pro gress, viewed with relation to the lack of progress of the other two, must in three years be able to dominate the Pacific against either, and in less than ten years against both.—North Ameri can Review. • Seal Hunting a Brutal Indu.trjr. Seal hunting in its legitimate form upon land is brutal beyond other in dustries because it depends for suc cess upon qualities that we admire in animals, tractability and tameness. Attached to the herd there is a contin gent of youthful “bachelor” seals. Their celibacy is enforced by the gruff old dogs that keep all the love-making to themselves. It is the unfortunate bachelors that are doomed to lose life as well as love. They are not needed in the propagation of the species. The world will not miss them dead, and women desire their furs. Aleut In dians, who share the islands with the seals, separate a few bachelors from the herd and drive them up the hills, inland. The docile creatures flop painfully along—no movement is as awkward as the progress of a seal out of water—proceeding by short rushes and long pauses at the rate of about half a mile an hour. In six hours they reach a secluded “killing ground.” The Indians separate them into groups, select the finest animals and beat them to death with clubs—taking care not to break the furs, lest they be unac- acceptable upon Fifth avenue.—Illus trated American. Fire-Froof Sheet-Iron Curtain*. tye of the regulations in certain European theatres was that every the atre be supplied with a sheet-iron cur tain, by which, in case of necessity, the auditorium could be completely isolated from the stage. This curtain, which was enormously heavy, had to be counterbalanced by massive iron weights, but so evenly was the weight distributed that the screen could be raised or lowered instantly by the pressure of a button controlling an electro-magnetic adjustment. The first theatre in Europe to use the electric iron curtain was the Comedie Fran- caise, in Paris, and the installation was made by an American electric company. This curtain is worked by a two horse-power motor, and can be lowered at a maximum rate of four and one-half feet in a second. In many threatres the iron curtain is now superseded by one of asbestos, which is infinitely less cumbrous and equally serviceable.—Chautauquan. A Be From the Mrs. John knl Detroit, Mlc who always trouble and sic! to those in distj “lam the have raised o! ago we had a ter, which beg teen years old. ous illness but away. Having in our family, and Scotch at that. Our d odd name, meant laek of “It is imposei John and I bad slowly passing found, however. >*•’ Kind Art. ing Sews. Detroit, Mich. J. of 130 Baker Street, i, is one of those women just what to do in all One that is a mother To a reporter she said: ier of ten ehildren and of them. Several years •us time with my daugh- when she was about six- ihe did not have any serl- smed to gradually waste •verhad any consumption T e come of good old Irish we did not think it was called the disease by an as I afterward learned, i to describe the feeling l we noticed our daughter -ay from us. Wo tlnully > medicine that seemod to • • ts Mott of the Time She TFa* Confined to Bed. help her, and from the first wo noticed a decided change for the better, and after three months* treatment her health was so greatly improved you would not have re cognized her. Sho gained in flesh rapidly and soon was in perfect health. The medi cine used was Dr. Williams'Pink Pills for Pale People. I have always kept those pills In the house since and have recommended them to many people. I have told many mothers about them aud they have effected Jbme wonderful cures. “Every mother in this land should keep these pills lathe house, as thov are good for many ailments, particularly those arising from impoverished or diseased blood, and weakened nerve force.” A King’s Roof Garden. King Ludwig’s historic winter gar den on the roof of the royal Resldenz Palais in Munich, is being demolished. The weight of the conservatory, with its large lake, giant palms and flower beds, was such that fears were enter tained that the roof might fall in, while an ever-present annoyance was the im possibility of keeping the ceilings of the state apartments below in an unin jured condition, owing to perpetual leakage. It Is twenty-fl^years since King Ludwig commandji the garden to be made, apd It was his favorite place of resort. He, frequently spent the entire nigh^t there, thirty garden ers were kept busy the greater part of the day while the king slept, rearrang ing the plans and bdnging new flow ers, so that each tithe he should find smm aww chart Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and Richard Wagner were perhaps the only two guests who were invited more than once to - view the retreat where* Kln^. Ludwig dreamed dreams and so mi lighted the misery of his madness. Beetles Ate .the Oad. That certain beetl&i are by no means frightened by lead foil hafl ‘long been recognized, but R-Js ratheftjiiscourag- ing to add of these reports that a box kbi en was lined witb»Wd. J^fter a while holes one-eighth ef *an inch in diame ter, and distinctiMspiral, ’ were noticed and traced to the^etle Trtropium luri- dum, Linn., whicJ^vas not yet on the list of lead eatert, or rather lead de stroyers. A cousin of this insect has been known to be destructive to lead cham bers. There are, ppfortunately. many insects and animal^ devoid of that sense for the sacre^ights of property which wc expect of everybody but our- srives.—Scientific American. A Surprise Party, “What’s Mrs. Brcezely in such a stew sbout?” “She asked the pleasure of Lieut. Slick’s company to tea, and he appeared on the scene with forty of his men.”-*- 1 Detroit Free Press. “Rust” the dread of the cotton grower, can be prevented. 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